2023 Mercedes-AMG EQE

[George K]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39080901/2023-mercedes-amg-eqe-revealed/

The AMG EQE53 raises the power level from the two electric motors to 617 horsepower and 701 pound-feet, and the addition of the optional Dynamic Plus package brings total power to a lofty 677 horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque. The sprint from 0 to 60 mph take a claimed 3.4 seconds in the standard car and 3.2 seconds with the package, and top speed is governed at either 137 or 149 mph. The torque routes through a single-speed transmission. A lower-powered AMG EQE43 model will be offered in Europe but not in the U.S.

It has a grill (or a picture of one) on the front.

It's electric.

That, alone, is enough to make me not buy it (among, of course, other reasons).

[Mik]

We will all drive electric cars in 20 years. But not yet.

[George K]

@mik I have zero problem with electric.

I have many problems with the lack of (convenient) infrastructure. Until charging becomes available to people who live in apartments and other places where a dedicated charging solution is not available, it'll never fly.

Unless you can make it as quick as filling 'er up.

That may happen and I hope so.

And of course, I have a problem with the displacement of outrage from "you're burning dead dinosaurs" to "you're strip-mining the Earth for lithium."

Or, of course, "you're burning dead dinosaurs to make electricity."

Other than that, it's fine.

[LuFins Dad]

@mik said in 2023 Mercedes-AMG EQE:

We will all drive electric cars in 20 years. But not yet.

Not me. The closer you get to driving an electric car, the closer I get to buying a 1978 Plymouth Fury.

[mark]

If I had the money, I'd buy it.

[Doctor Phibes]

One of the great thing about Mercedes is that they always look like a Mercedes.

That doesn't. It's got the ubiquitous, boring style that pretty much all cars have.